Imagine trusting your body so much, that the ebb and flow of your energy levels are never a cause for alarm, but more a cause to embrace the natural variety that your own body expresses into the world. Trusting that your fallow periods would be followed by periods of doing, simply because it is in your nature to ebb and flow.

Every time our bodies tell us they’re tired, and we check the clock, or check to see how much we’ve done that day, to see if our tiredness is justified (or say we’ll lie down after folding one more pile of laundry), we deny our bodies the simple pleasure of expressing itself and being heard.

We do ourselves a major disservice by placing our to-do list above our own physical needs.